“She was being friendly, asking me lots of questions. Like, ‘Where are you going?’ And, ‘How old is your baby?’

“She was nice, you know? Then she was like, ‘Do you mind if I hold her?’ And I was sitting right next to her, right there, so I said okay, and I let her.”

It was then the woman asked to take April to the bathroom.

Eleanor added: “She said: ‘I’ll take her to the bathroom. You look tired.’ And I was sceptical, but I had already said okay, and she had already got up and taken her to the bathroom.

“And then, I don’t know, about 10 minutes later, when she didn’t come back, I started getting nervous.”

Now cops and The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have released pics of the snatched baby and a computer image of what she could look like now – as a 34-year-old woman, in a desperate bid for new information.

The suspect, who could also go by Rene or Rene Latoya, was described as a young black female with a slim build, about 5 ft 3 inches tall with spots on her face.

Detectives said the suspect also had her ears pierced with two holes in each ear.

April had a notable birthmark on the top of her left wrist in a straight line.

On the day she was snatched April was bundled in a pink-and-white snowsuit.

Leslie Parsons, head of the DC Police criminal investigations division, said: “About the only thing we can do proactively at this point is put it out in the media.

“Hopefully someone will see it, and they’ll call us.”

He said the child snatcher disappeared “like a ghost”.

Eleanor, who also has a son and lives alone, said she has faced comments from friends calling her an “unfit mother” and was even grilled by cops over whether she sold the baby.